Guest Tester Posted June 2, 2008 Posted June 2, 2008 Hello there, What is the length of the login user names in AD? It seems to take no more than 20 characters including the dot[firstname.lastname]. Any way I can get around that limit? Thank you, T
Guest Richard Mueller [MVP] Posted June 3, 2008 Posted June 3, 2008 Re: usernames length Tester wrote: > What is the length of the login user names in AD? It seems to take no > more than 20 characters including the dot[firstname.lastname]. Any way > I can get around that limit? Thank you, T I assume you mean the "pre-Windows 2000 logon name". The value for user (and group) objects is limited to 20 characters. This is the NetBIOS name of the object, so this is a limitation of NetBIOS. For computer objects the limit is 15 characters. The sAMAccountName for computer objects is the NetBIOS name plus a trailing "$", so the sAMAccountName of computer objects is limited to 16 characters. -- Richard Mueller MVP Directory Services Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net --
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